How to Search the Collection

The site is under construction, but the search is up and running, so feel free to look around.

For the best keyword search results, enter two or three notable objects, colors, or figures that appear in the painting you wish to find.

Some terms (water, trees, horse, mountain, etc) appear in many PBNs, so searching for a particular ship or horse-in-field scene may result in several pages of results. You can either page thru the thumbnails pictures until you find what you want or enter additional words to narrow it down further. Depending upon the PBN you may have to look through a few pages of results.

If you know the title or a word in the title of the PBN you wish to find, give it a try in the title search field. Many titles are not yet entered, but the database is growing daily.

If you enter a word that is not in the PBN's keyword list you will get no results even is all the other words you entered were in the list.

Avoid using prepositions (on, with, at, near, etc) and conjunctions (and). Instead of "A brown dog with white spots and a blue collar ", search for "brown dog white spots blue collar". If nothing comes up, try eliminating some terms-- e.g. "brown dog spots collar".